May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?" "You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“I hated how sometimes life threw you a curveball—how you thought you were going to make some money selling a stolen tiger… — John Jodzio Copy Share Image
“is an account, in other words, of how a problematic valorization of powerlessness as “good” can easily emerge from the same situation… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Science, innovations and other means in which we desperately attempt to predict and control our existence are merely illusions to conceal our… — Tia Nnebo Copy Share Image
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
